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Values refer to specific manifestations or qualities of a site that can be considered important to a particular stakeholder group. A site can have multiple values, both natural and cultural, for multiple stakeholder groups. Not all values will necessarily be considered relevant to the OUV.
Source(s): Climate Change Adaptation for Natural World Heritage sites
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The Nyero Rockpaintings site is a three tiered rockshelters with primitive paintings on their inner surfaces. Archaeologically the site is of a Later Iron Age period. The makers of the paintings cannot be traced but the ingenuity in which they were painted demonstrates a high degree of appreciation of their aesthetic values.
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Greece Grèce Grecia Греция اليونان 希腊 The Hellenic Republic
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Jordan,
impact of new hotels under construction in the vicinity of the World Heritage site of Petra
insufficiency or non-existence of sewage disposal facilities
uncontrolled development of villages in the vicinity of the site
proliferation of shops
insufficient conservation of antiquities
other encroachments upon the integrity of the ...
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The Pondaung Formation is a geologic formation which consists of layers of red beds alternating with grey sandstones sediments, dated to about 40 million years ago. Several of these outcrops around Bahin village, located in the Dry Zone of central Myanmar, contain fossils of the oldest representatives of anthropoid primates, which correspond to the class that includes ...
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World Heritage Site Managers' ForumKamedaYumeko
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Edinburgh, UK,Registration for the event has now closed, but due to demand the event is accessible online. To take part in the conference remotely, please read and follow the simple instructions below. Comments and questions will be taken live at the Conference in Edinburgh!
Live streaming 23 and 24 November Live video stream address
http://bit.ly/ikwig
Live video stream ...
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Monitoring World Heritage site closures
In the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments have taken measures to restrict movements of people and access to certain areas.
This includes the closure of natural and cultural World Heritage sites in the 167 countries they are located in. Please consider the following when reviewing the statistics:
The World Heritage ...
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Japan Japon Japón Япония اليابان 日本 Japan
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Aachen, Germany,This technical meeting is the fifth gathering of international experts and Afghan officials to report on the recent on-site works implemented in the Cultural Landscape and the Archaeological Remains of the Bamiyan Valley, in particular those under UNESCO's post-conflict emergency conservation project for the site. The experts, together with the ...
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,Space-Based Technologies for the Preservation of World Heritage Sites
Event date and time : 12 September 2023 13:00-14:30 (UTC +3)Room : Al Ahsa Oasis Room, Al Faisaliah Hotel
This side event aims at discussing how the use of space-based technologies can help World Heritage practitioners (in particular site managers) better identify and prevent potential ...
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A model conservation and management plan for the cultural heritage site of Abila in Northern Jordan is being developed jointly by a working group of teachers and students from BTU and Yarmouk University. This model can serve as a reference for other sites in the region.
The initiative was followed by a course devoted to development of guidelines for sustainable management ...
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Germany,
Urban pressure
Current traffic planning
Need to review the legal protection of the site
,It is recalled that the Committee during its nineteenth session invited the German authorities to provide a full state of conservation report on the site, including statements concerning legal protection, current planning and development of Potsdam, as well as ...
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Portugal,,The Bureau at its twenty-second session took note of a report on the impact of works at the River Douro on the World Heritage values of the site of Porto. In response, the State Party by letter dated 16 November 1998, informed that:
- the works would be undertaken at three kilometres distance from the World Heritage site
- due to the distance and the ...
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Great Zimbabwe National Monument World Heritage site,The UNESCO World Heritage Centre, in collaboration with the African World Heritage Fund (AWHF), the Centre for Heritage Development in Africa (CHDA) and the National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe, is organising an Anglophone risk preparedness workshop for cultural heritage site managers, community members, and ...
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ICOMOS - the International Council on Monuments and Sites - is an international non governmental organisation that is comprised of professionals, experts, representatives from local authorities, companies and heritage organisations, and is dedicated to the conservation and enhancement of the architectural and landscape heritage in France and throughout the world. ICOMOS ...
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On 3 October 2017, the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of the Republic of South Sudan submitted three heritage sites to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre to be included on its first ever Tentative List of potential World Heritage sites: Sudd Wetlands (Mixed Natural/Cultural site); Boma-Badingilo Migratory Landscape (Natural site); and DeimZubier Slave Route Site ...
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Poaching
,At its last session (Merida, 1996), the Committee had noted that a Peace Agreement signed on 20 April 1995 had allowed for a detailed evaluation of the state of conservation of the site and the development of an action programme. The Bureau, at its twenty-first session, in June 1997, was informed of the findings of a ...
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China,,According to a state of conservation report submitted by the Chinese authorities in July 1998, a commission of experts for the preservation of this site was established by the local authorities. Subsequently, legal measures which strengthen the protection of Wudang Mountains have been put into effect. The transfer of the local inhabiting the ancient buildings to ...
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On the occasion of Journees Europeennes du Patrimoine (European Heritage Days), and as part of the UNESCO-Vocations Patrimoine Fellowships programme for World Heritage managers established in January 2006, which provides fellowships to current and future managers of World Heritage sites, the Vocations Patrimoine, l'Heritage du Futur association is organizing an ...
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UNESCO offers its sincere solidarity with the people of Japan, and in particular the residents of Okinawa, who have lost a cultural and historical symbol of the Ryukyu islands. UNESCO stands ready to assist the authorities as needed.
In the early morning hours of 31 October, a number of buildings, including Shuri Castle of the World Heritage site of “Gusuku Sites and ...
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Peru,
Fragility of its adobe structures;
Occupation of land by farmers
,An extensive report on the state of conservation of Chan Chan was submitted to the Committee at its seventeenth session in Cartagena in 1993. It was concluded at that time that the issue of invasions and land occupation by farmers needed to be addressed immediately in order to rapidly and permanently ...
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Project Space Luang Prabang, Lao People's Democratic Republic,UNESCO opens the exhibition “Stories and places – Movies and World Heritage Sites in Asia” in Luang Prabang, Lao PDR, 3-10 December 2011.
Luang Prabang’s unique architecture - blending elegantly traditional Lao structures and European colonial buildings - as well as its vibrant cultural ...
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,The Workshop on management for World Heritage site managers in South-Eastern Europe in the framework of the preparation of the Second Cycle of Periodic Reporting for Europe and North America took place in Sibiu, Romania from 15 to 17 May 2012. It was a follow-up from the previous sub-regional meeting in Prague 26-27 May 2011 where the need to involve site managers was ...
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Online (Zoom Meetings) and In-person (Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia),Managing World Heritage for the Next 50 Years
The 5th session of the World Heritage Site Managers’ Forum was held both online (19 June, 4 and 13 July 2023) and in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (11-15 September 2023). This event brought together 105 professionals involved in the management of 92 World ...
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The Muarajambi Temple Compound Site is located in the Muarajambi Village, in the District of Maro Sebo, Muaro Jambi Regency, Jambi Province. From Jambi city, the site is less than 40 kilo-meters and can be reached by land transportation or through the river in one hour. The site is spread along 7.5 kilo-meters of the riverbanks of Batanghari River in which old canals or ...
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Thailand,,The Bureau was informed that this site has been severely damaged by fires that had affected Thailand and other countries in the region. Forest fire prevention was identified to be the major management issue in this site by IUCN, Centre and other experts and managers who visited the site as part of a World Heritage workshop hosted by Thailand during 19-23 January ...
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Portugal,Need for a restoration programme,By 20 March 2003, a state of conservation report elaborated by the Municipality of Sintra was sent to the Secretariat announcing the designation of a site manager responsible for the World Heritage site. The document states that several elements of the World Heritage site are in a serious condition: The two Parks (Pena and ...
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,Based on an analysis of existing marine World Heritage sites and their distribution among the 18 IUCN marine regions, the Indian Ocean has been identified as one of the regions under-represented on the World Heritage List.
In support of the Global Strategy toward a balanced, credible and representative World Heritage List, a comparative regional assessment is being ...
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The quarry site is located on a laterite ridge to the east of the Wassu stone circles site. The ridge is covered with grass and other vegetation which obscures the rock outcrop from a distance but the quarries are easy to identify having been open-cast quarried for the stone. The most obvious form is a pillar-shaped quarry where the stone was removed and probably ...
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Jesus of Nazareth and his disciples from the north of the Sea of Galilee, lived and worked in the towns, villages and the countryside of Lower Galilee. The region between Nazareth and Capernaum has undergone many changes since the Second Temple period. Many pilgrims and visitors will walk in the footsteps of Jesus and the Apostles, in order to experience their trials and ...
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A new partnership to promote UNESCO World Heritage sites has been launched with the signing on 19 July of a Memorandum of Understanding between UNESCO and the New Zealand-based company GSP Our Place-World Heritage (GSP OP-WH Ltd). Under the partnership, GSP OP-WH Ltd and its international network of professional photographers will produce a series of books, television ...
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Mr John Zulu, site manager of Zambia's Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls National Park and World Heritage site arrived in the U.S. August 5th to spend six weeks immersed in the details of people, park and resource management at Grand Canyon National Park as the latest "U.S. World Heritage Fellow" sponsored by the National Park Service with support from the United Nations ...
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Central African Republic,Heavy poaching,The Bureau recalled that when this site was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1988, several members of the Committee had registered their reservations as to its state of conservation and several threats to its integrity. The Bureau was concerned that despite assurances given to the Committee at the time of its inscription and ...
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Kenya,
Illegal activities leading to serious destruction of canopy and a decrease of the overall forest area
Livestock grazing in the site
Fire
Landslides
Cannabis cultivation
Lack of implementation of the Management Plan
,The Centre and IUCN received a letter from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) noting that IUCN had ‘requested KWS nominate Mt Kenya World Heritage Site ...
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A practical guide on climate change adaptation for natural World Heritage sites has been published in the latest edition of the UNESCO World Heritage Paper Series, thanks to the generous support of the Netherlands Funds-in-Trust and the Belgian Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment.
Climate change has become more prominent as a management ...
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UNESCO is committed to strengthening the management of African World Heritage sites by building the capacity of African World Heritage site managers – as embodied by its newly-launched Flagship Programme on “Fostering Cultural Heritage and Capacity Development” in Africa.
In line with this Flagship Programme, the Interim Committee of the African Site Managers Network met ...
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El Salvador,
Need for a Management Plan
Heavy rains and storms causing serious flooding in 1998 (issue resolved)
Earthquakes in 2001 (issue resolved)
,The Secretariat has received the Management Plan for the site. Concultura has been working since 1997 on that Management Plan, according to guidelines and criteria elaborated at the international seminar organized by the ...
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UNESCO Headquarter, Paris,From July 1st to December 24th 2012, the second edition of the World Heritage Game will be online at www.worldheritagegame.com. For six months, players can discover the whereabouts of the six letters of UNESCO photographed at different World Heritage sites. Many prizes can be won, including a discovery tour to one of these sites.
Simple and ...
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Ajaccio, France,UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre is organizing the 2nd Global World Heritage Marine Site Managers Conference that will take place in Ajaccio, France, from 18 to 20 October 2013 (by invitation only).
This meeting aims at bringing together for the second time all managers from the 46 marine sites inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in view of sharing best ...
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China,Kazakhstan,Kyrgyzstan,
Management systems/management plan (Need to implement the timetables for developing detailed management plans; Need for strategies for conservation of component sites; Need for visitor management strategies, including interpretation)
Impacts of tourism/visitor/recreation
Urban development (Comparative fragility of many sites)
Ground transport ...